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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
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Subject: Re: EVE and getting new people to play
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 22:55:28 -0000 (UTC)
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JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/2025 14:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> > So there's this article, discussing the problem on getting new players
> > to invest their time in EVE, the long-running sci-fi MMORPG. One of
> > the issue the game has is that many of its current players have been
> > playing the game for literal decades, and -as such- newcomers are at a
> > distinct disadvantage when starting up their virtual empires. There's
> > just much less room for newbies to manuever.

> It's something that World of Tanks also suffers from. As they added more 
> crew skills and equipment types for tanks in an effort to give long 
> standing players something to work towards the gulf between them and new 
> players has significantly increased.

> I kinda feel sorry for new players who are encouraged to get to the 
> higher tiers as fast as possible (that's where WG make their money) and 
> they encounter players with maxed out tanks that will just shred them to 
> pieces before they even know what's happened.

Don't they have limits on what levels players can play with? I only 
played WoT @ E3 back in 2014 briefly. It wasn't a bad game, but I prefer 
playing Battlefield 1942, etc.

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